I'm way in the middle of a hundred postings. I reply to an article. I ask it to be quoted. Oops, the quote tags are visible, wtf is this? Ok, go into options. For some reason I was reset to "extrans". Ok, whatever, I change back to html. I save, and, lo and behold, my comment is gone, all the other comments are missing. I'm back to the first page with the first five comments. And this is in the "good, well-programmed" version, not the beta.

This is hilarious

by Hrry Hrrsn

"...couldnt take a 7.62x39 mm bullet...". Maybe, but it occurs to me that in many special ops missions, if a bullet is flying, the mission has already failed. This may not be a tool selected for certain missions, but may be a fine tool for others.

"These are not the drones you're looking for"

Yeah. It reminds me of...

"...and the wolf came along and blew the house of straw away. So the second little pig built his house of wood, and..." etc.

One moral of the story is "Learn from your mistakes and build it better", and not "Oh no, there was a mistake, we must quit building."

"Beibs in Space!". I like that. It has a nice ring to it.

Yes, very nice. Using tight clothing to maintain pressure and hold the gooey bits together. I wonder how it does against micro-meteorites.

...and frikkin' lasers on the helmet. Who doesn't put lasers on the helmet?

good answer

Hear hear!

I suppose we could save NASA some bucks, though. Get rid of the engineering teams and find the AC that thinks of things that (obviously) none of the NASA folks were able to. In a throwaway Slashdot post, no less.

I vote yes.

I feel your pain. Still, Scorch_Mechanic in another post has it right. A little something to catch the eye of the public.

It gives teachers a chance to engage their kids. If we have any engaged teachers, that is; it could be that the last time they were engaged, they were sitting in auditoriums across America, watching the devil's-horns of the SRB's wandering from the cloud of gas that was Challenger.

What an "ourreputation"?

Cosmos 1.0 was also "watered down science and at worst, factually inaccurate".

In any field, to describe the work of the experts of that field to humans that are not experts in that field, the experts must summarize/analogize/tell stories to those other humans who have not spent a lifetime in a particular field.

In these retellings, "facts" can actually get in the way of the non-expert getting a basic understand of the subject at hand.